Portals of Globalization : : Repositioning Mumbai's Ports and Zones, 1833-2014 / / Megan Maruschke.

While ports are traditionally considered national infrastructure sites that connect states to global markets, special economic zones and past free ports are portrayed as threats to national sovereignty. This book calls these narratives into question as it explores the history of planning Mumbai'...

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Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg,, [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Dialectics of the Global ; 2
Physical Description:1 online resource (266 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Freeing the Port and Winning Land, 1830s-1860s
  • 3. Territorializing Bombay Port, 1860s-1880s
  • 4. An Export Processing Zone in the Making, 1940s-1980s
  • 5. Managing World Orders, 1960s-1980s
  • 6. Strategizing Global India and Transregional Mumbai, 1990s-2014
  • 7. Globalizing Mumbai, 1940s-2014
  • 8. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index